El prevenido engañado (María de Zayas, 1637) en El jardín de Venus (José María Forqué, 1983)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the TV rewriting of El prevenido engañado (María de Zayas, Primera parte del honesto y entretenido sarao, 1637) by José María Forqué (El jardín de Venus, TVE, 1983, chapters 10-12). Divided into three episodes («Serafina», «Violante» and «Gracia»), we analyze the production context of this series, which also included tales by Boccaccio (Decameron), Guy de Maupassant (Sauvée, Imprudence, Décoré! et Au bord du lit) and Braulio Foz (La vida de Pedro Saputo); the keys of the casting, with José Sazatornil («Saza») leading it; its diegetic structure, based on two frames that give entrance to the novelist herself as narrator and as a character; the additions and deletions with respect to the text, emphasizing the ellipsis of Fadrique Menéndez de Olcoz’s adventures with Beatriz and the duchess from Valencia; the relative weight of feminism and, finally, the debts that the scriptwriters Enrique Llovet and Hermógenes Sainz contracted with Cervantes and the picaresque.

Keywords

• Zayas María de
• Short Novel
• Baroque
• Forqué José María